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Baltimore's position has been supported by some of the most influential talking heads in the scientific community. Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology at Harvard, wrote this summer, "Fraud is a pathology...Error, on the other hand, falls into the category of unavoidable side consequences to commendable activity...
...wouldn't know it from the way he acts, but Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould has yet to win the Nobel prize. Harvard professors write a lot of books, but most of them appeal to a fairly limited readership. Gould, however, already has several bestselling books on biology, geology, and evolution under his belt, including The Panda's Thumb and the award-winning The Mismeasure...
Although he has a reputation for being one of the most inaccessible of Harvard's star professors, Gould teaches the extremely popular Science B-16, "History of the Earth and Life." Sorry kids. That's all we can handle in one semester. Aside from biology, Gould is known for his passionate interest in baseball. He may give students the cold shoulder when they approach him with a difficult point from his course, but he's perfectly happy to discuss statistical methods to track the decline of 400 hitting...
Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson, on the other hand, is one of the most approachable professors at the University. He and Gould have a long history of disagreement on the comparative roles of heredity and environment in biology. "Everything Stephen Jay Gould understands, we agree on," quips Wilson...
Though senior writer Otto Friedrich has written ten other books, he is best known as the author of an acclaimed biography of a brilliant pianist, Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations (Random House). When he is not buried in his own writing, Friedrich sometimes dons the mantle of literary agent. Impressed by the reporting that Denise Worrell, then TIME's show-business correspondent, had done on celebrities from Michael Jackson to George Lucas, he offered to spend his lunch hours showing Worrell's work to publishers. A flattered if skeptical Worrell said, "Great!" then forgot about...